The Cheetah Girls: One World (2008) (TV)

Director:

Paul Hoen

Writers:

Daniel Berendsen (screenplay)
Daniel Berendsen (story)

Release Date:

22 August 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical

Tagline:

What if only one star can shine?

Plot:

In this "trequel" to The Cheetah Girls, Chanel, Dorinda, and Aqua, are off to India to star in a Bollywood movie...

Plot Keywords:

Cheetah Girls | Bollywood | Sequel | Animal In Title | Third Part

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Adrienne Bailon	...	Chanel
Sabrina Bryan	...	Dorinda
Kiely Williams	...	Aqua
Roshan Seth	...	Kamal Uncle
Michael Steger	...	Vikram
Kunal Sharma	...	Amar
Deepti Daryanani	...	Gita
Rupak Ginn	...	Rahim
Vinod Nagpal	...	Swami
Smita Hai	...	Amar's Mother
Shradha Shrivastav	...	Amar's Cousin (as Shraddha Shrivastava)
Sujata Kumar	...	Restaurant Manager
J. Brandon Hill	...	Marty
Maanvi Gagroo	...	Crazed Fan
Vatsal Seth	...	Himself (as Vatsal Sheth)

Also Known As:

The Cheetah Girls 3 (UK) (working title)
The Cheetah Girls 3: Indian Adventure! (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Australia:G

Filming Locations:

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Company:

Khussro Films

Trivia:

This is the first of the Cheetah Girls movies that Raven-Symone will not star in. She didn't tour with the Cheetah's in 2006-2007 in their "The Party's Just Begun Tour" and is not featured of their upcoming, non-soundtrack CD.

Goofs:

Continuity: During the audition for the lead, there was a time where Aqua's hair was messed up and on the next camera angle, it's fine.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Studio DC: Almost Live (2008) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Stand Up

Um, can I have 90 minutes of my life back, please?

Given the title of this comment it goes without saying that this isn't exactly the most favourable of reviews. However, I feel that two stars does justice to how terrible this film truly was. Sure, it's not exactly a first-class production, and it's not supposed to be...but it still sucks!

First, and perhaps foremost, the music is absolutely horrid. For about 70% of the movie you would have to listen to the sounds of the Cheetah Girls, which are at best mediocre, and you could say that the music in this film sort of resembles that of the other two, except perhaps 100 times worse. Whenever a song came on I could feel my soul shrivelling up in anxiety, just waiting for the song to finish. Ever felt like that before? Well guess what? If you watch this movie it'll happen to you about 20 times over.

I mean come on, people! The music didn't even sound remotely Indian (unlike in the Cheetah Girls 2, which actually had some Spanish rhythms, and one or two of the songs were actually pretty good), and yes, throwing in one or two Indian instruments doesn't cut it, it still sounds like cheesy American Disney-pop.

If music wasn't the "foremost" criticism, then perhaps the lack of Galleria's (Raven-Symone) presence was. Removing Galleria is like removing fish from the sea or breast implants from Pamela Anderson or some other crazy stuff like that. Oh, and don't even get me started on how they actually "killed" her off (I don't want to reveal plot elements, so if you really want to know, find out yourself).

All in all, it's nothing more than a cheesefest. Sure, cheesiness is fine - to a certain extent. This just went way too far and broke the cheese-o-meter. It's the kind of cheese that develops on people's feet, not from milk. Sickening.